I am not sure if my computer got messed up or something. But i cannot download anymore youtube videos using bookmarks anymore. Is this part of a new update or is something gone wrong.

Does anyone know anything about this?

does bookmarking a youtube link downloads a video previously ?

Originally Posted by sulasno

does bookmarking a youtube link downloads a video previously ?

It used to. a couple of days ago.

I'm not sure what you guys mean about bookmarking a video link downloading it..? But anyway, I used a bookmarklet to get YouTube videos vis KickYouTube, which is the best downloader site I've seen. You can select the format, and even just grab the sound track as an mp3 if you want. This bookmarklet will do it;

javascript:a=location.href.replace(/www.youtube/i,"kickyoutube");location.href=a;

Or if you're using Chrome Dev, I made it into a simple extension.

Originally Posted by Michael3185

I'm not sure what you guys mean about bookmarking a video link downloading it..? But anyway, I used a bookmarklet to get YouTube videos vis KickYouTube, which is the best downloader site I've seen. You can select the format, and even just grab the sound track as an mp3 if you want. This bookmarklet will do it;

javascript:a=location.href.replace(/www.youtube/i,"kickyoutube");location.href=a;

Or if you're using Chrome Dev, I made it into a simple extension.

I mean that by using a bookmark (which is just some javascript) I used to be able to download youtube videos just by clicking the bookmark.

Originally Posted by Koneesha

I mean that by using a bookmark (which is just some javascript) I used to be able to download youtube videos just by clicking the bookmark.

Have you tried the javascript line above, or the little extension? Have you tried other javascript bookmarklets, with different functions, to test if it's your javascript that's failed?

Originally Posted by Michael3185

Have you tried the javascript line above, or the little extension? Have you tried other javascript bookmarklets, with different functions, to test if it's your javascript that's failed?

Yes i have tried other ones. BTW how would my javascript fail?

Originally Posted by Koneesha

BTW how would my javascript fail?

I'm not sure, but sometimes things fail and can only be fixed by erasing and reinstalling things. All I can say is that I'm thankful I haven't had to do that with my entire Windows installation for a couple of years - it used to be a regular thing!

November 23 '09 youtube modified the video parameters. This new code works fine.

javascript:window.location.href = 'http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=' + yt.getConfig("SWF_ARGS")['video_id'] + "&sk=" + yt.getConfig("SWF_ARGS")['sk'] + '&t=' + yt.getConfig("SWF_ARGS")['t'];